Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney Jeff
Greg announces he’s officially retired from ALL sports after a horrible tournament at school! That is until Greg’s mother convinces him to give it another shot and forces him to join up for basketball against his will. The tryout process is a Disaster, and Greg is confident he won’t be chosen. But he unintentionally gets assigned to the worst team. Greg and his new friends are having a difficult time winning even one game as the season gets underway. Yet, anything may happen in athletics. Will Greg perform well when the game is on the line and the ball is in his hands? Will he miss his chance, or what?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney Jeff
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The Wimpy Kid series is improved by the addition of “Big Shot.” Basketball is a sport that is extensively emphasized in the book, thus it was intriguing to follow Greg’s team’s season-long results. Ruby Bird’s reappearance was wonderful, even though other characters like Rowley and Rodrick played relatively few parts.
In this novel, Jeff Kinney did a great job of portraying Greg as a fumbling middle schooler. The start was simply wonderful! Greg’s parents tried and attempted to get him involved in sports before he tested out and made the middle school basketball team. Nonetheless, on a terrible team. In a competition for the poorest of the worst teams, they kept on losing. Greg then hit the game-winning shot backwards in the decisive game! While the narrative wouldn’t have felt as complete if they hadn’t won, I appreciated that Jeff Kinney allowed them to triumph.
Greg has zero interest in sports. But his mother is, having played basketball for the state team. She instructs Greg to choose a sport to participate in, and after giving it some thought, he decides on basketball. Simply said, it’s not a good match. Some kids are just not athletically inclined. Some kids just aren’t cut out to be physicians. Parents must stop imposing their own views on their kids and start accepting them for who they are.
